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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476812903321

Autore

Grant Carl A.

Titolo

Research In Multicultural Education : From The Margins To The Mainstream / / Carl A. Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken : , : Taylor & Francis, , 1992

©1992

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 pages)

Disciplina

370.117

Soggetti

Multicultural education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Introduction; 1 Research and Multicultural Education: Barriers, Needs and Boundaries; 2 The Marginalized Discourse of Minority Intellectual Thought; 3 Multicultural Education; 4 Reflections on the Researcher in a Multicultural Environment; 5 Using Quantitative Methods to Explore Multicultural Education; 6 Using Multiple Strategies to Assess Multicultural Education in a School District; 7 Manifestations of Inequality; 8 Culturally Relevant Teaching; 9 Riding the Wave; 10 The Language Minority Student and Multicultural Education; 11 Success Stories 12 Relationships Between Home, Community and School:13 Teacher Education Programs and Increasing Minority School Populations; 14 Schools and Opportunities for Multicultural Contact; 15 Multicultural Education: Policies and Practices in Teacher Education; 16 Policy Analysis of State Multicultural Education Programs; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students.